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Just trying to find excuses to regram all of my favourite water paintings. Coral reef from 2015

On another note..... recent update from the mullumbimby washouse is that the wave is still peeling.....🌊🐟😄♥️

Today i collaged photocopied fishies on top just because i can!

#underwatermural #coral #woodchipwallpaper #alwayshandpaint

One baby-free afternoon later :) LOVING the freedom of careless quick painting!

Yes finally got the mojo to paint the babe a mural! Shes only got her own corner mind, not a whole room. Main question is... ocean or jungle theme?

Prehistoric plants detail from before i had a plant-geek partner and probably painted them better in ignorance!!

#underwater #bathroom

Absolutely in love with these purple fuschias outside TorCottage! More than enough of a reason for a rainy run up the tor. Oh @caeliemartha thought of you alot today whilst running up slopes&steps like the old lighthouse days. Hope you’ve had the bestest day everrr 💖💖💐

News of the week is that this peacock painting inspired by a trip to india and then alot of backbending in 2013 has been sold ! soon it will be hanging where it should be ,next to his mate the tiger at @yogainthelanes Brighton.

Over this summer i have re-visited many of the different screen-printing techniques that i have learnt since Diana Milstein first taught me to mono-print in her attic in Bristol when i was 8. Throughout my youth I have dipped in and out of the print-industry and print-study and had times of no-print-at-all as ihave tried to find my place in the world . It had been amazing to have this project as a reason to confirm my print-passion and knowledge. 33 years after first visiting the Dove as an infant, i am finally making and presenting my artwork here and it feels like exactly the right place for me.

Being asked to join in with this years SAW project was a heartwarming confirmation of my official "landing" back in Somerset, and more specifically, Butleigh, after many years out in the wide world searching for.. well something!.

My work is very process-lead in that i set up the image-making techniques that i know and love, and then let loose as i over-print last weeks , or yesterdays work, so a suprise collage effect occurs out of a variety of images that i have carefully chosen. This i feel creates a suitable layering of pictures, a bit like dreams or memories that often mix together in the mind. It is a very prolific approach and a far-cry from the reproductive reason print was invented in the first place as almost all of my work ends up as unique pieces.

My sketchbooks work in a fairly similar way. I always over-work pages and overlay materials and collage as much as possible to gather as much of a "complete" record of my visual experience. The majority of the sketchbook for this project was created within 1 week staying in the Door-house in early spring. It was a magical week when not only was i watching the blossoms and the wildflowers opening infront of my eyes, joking to friends that i'd found the portal to the next dimension of beauty, but i also conceived my first child.!

Thanks to Myfannwy Morris who i only really met a handfull of times, but who clearly lit the fire under the concept of a new generation of artists entering the Dove's Amazing Space.